Charles Smith Hamilton

Charles Smith Hamilton (16 November 1822-17 April 1891) was a Major-General of the US Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Charles Smith Hamilton was born in Westernville, New York in 1822, and he graduated from West Point in 1843. Hamilton served in the US Army during the Mexican-American War and was wounded at Molino del Rey. He resigned from the army in 1853 and became a farmer and miller in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. On 17 May 1861, he became a Brigadier-General of the US Army when the American Civil War broke out, and he led a brigade in Nathaniel P. Banks' division in the Army of the Potomac. On 30 April 1862, General George B. McClellan relieved him of command without explanation, and he was transferred to the Western Theater. Hamilton led a division in the Army of the Mississippi at the Battle of Iuka and the Second Battle of Corinth, and he was promoted to Major-General on 19 September 1862. In early 1863, he was given command of the District of West Tennessee, the District of Corinth, and the XVI Corps, and he resigned in April 1863 due to disagreements with General Ulysses S. Grant. He became a US marshal and paper manufacturer after the war's end, and he died in 1891 at the age of 68.